Poetic Medicine: Creating Your Life Narrative through Words
Schedule
Sun Dec 08 2024 at 06:00 pm to 10:00 pm
UTC+00:00Location
Online event | Suisun City, California
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Expressive arts offer a way to connect to your authentic self and a range of emotions including joy, passion, anger, and sadness. Poetry and creative writing are proven tools for reflection and processing emotions on your journey toward holistic wellness.
Express the fresh, creative sensibility and playfulness you knew as a child and the unique, adult voice that has ripened over the years.
Our facilitator and Founder of the Institute for Poetic Medicine, John Fox, PPM, will lead us on a poetic medicine exploration intended to serve as encouragement and catalyst for your healing and personal journey. This healing includes using creativity for people in recovery from, or at risk for, alcohol and drug dependency, and those facing life challenges due to stress, trauma, and disability.
We will use evocative poems as our catalyst to our own creativity.
These poems will come from people who have lived through trauma and loss and have discovered beauty and wholeness. Our poems will come from healing poets and from children who have so much to share with adults.
We will slow down and in a safe place, make time to put your words on the page. Sharing our poems with one another will help relieve isolation and nourish healing community. This sharing is by invitation: reading your poems is not required.
No previous experience in writing poetry is required. John’s gift is to make writing accessible to everyone.
John Fox is a poet, educator, and author. His books include, Finding What You Didn’t Lose: Expressing Your Truth and Creativity through Poem-Making (1995) and Poetic Medicine: The Healing Art of Poem-Making (1997). His work is featured in the 2008 PBS documentary Healing Words: Poetry & Medicine. John has brought poetry-as-healer to communities across the United States.
"John Fox is the most sensitive and effective teacher of poetic medicine I know. He listens to both poem and person deeply, and he is a master at guiding others."
“This program got me in touch with a part of myself that I was longing to get in touch with. It gave me a safe place to be creative,
to access my depth through creativity.”
"I learned to hold space, not only for others but for myself."
Crescent Moon Center's mission is to build a community of support around people in recovery from, or at risk for, alcohol and drug dependency, and those facing life challenges due to stress, trauma, and disability. We are a women led 501c3 nonprofit offering an empowering path toward healing, resilience, and growth through proven experiential art and equine-assisted learning workshops, along with ongoing community engagement and support.
Interested? Questions? Email us: [email protected]
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Where is it happening?
Online event, Suisun City, California